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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951
"for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
Edwin Mattison McMillan
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
USA
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
b. 1907
d. 1991
b. 1912
d. 1999
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